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OR 'debate' at Draft talk:Preserved locomotives in the United States

You may be interested. Most of this draft, which I reviewed at AfC, was unsourced, and a debate about it ensued... feel free to give some thoughts if you wish. (You're not under any obligation to do so, of course, but in case you wanted to...) Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 16:04, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Would you like some more buttons?

I'd happily grant reviewer, rollback, and new page patroller rights if you'd find any of them useful. Appreciate your help on the motorway articles earlier. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:28, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds useful, yes thank you. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:03, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

...along with pointers on best practice when granted those rights. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:04, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They're simple enough to figure out. Rollback in particular I think you'll find useful. For NPR, have a look at WP:NPR, and for the other two I'll give you the typically wordy and over-linked template:

Hello 10mmsocket. Your account has been granted the "rollbacker" and "pending changes reviewer" user rights. These user rights allow you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes and quickly revert the edits of other users.

Rollback user right

Please keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

Rollback should never be used to edit war.
Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin).

Pending changes reviewer user right

The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection enabled is located at Special:StablePages. You may find the following pages useful to review:

Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing.
Wikipedia:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes.
Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.

Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of reviewer or rollback. If you no longer want either of these user rights, contact me and I'll remove it, alternatively you can leave a request on the administrators' noticeboard. Happy editing! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:32, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know if you need anything/have any questions. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:32, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Battlefield Line Railway

Congrats on your new rights, well deserved! On an unrelated note, I've gone well past WP:3RR on this article, you may be interested in having a look... Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 21:28, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced edit.

Hi, you reversed an edit without referencing the edit that you made. In future can you please make sure you reference any edits, or edits you undo as on Wikipedia if it isn’t referenced, it didn’t happen. Thank you. Liverpool445 (talk) 12:38, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) It would be helpful to 10mmsocket if you could actually give a diff of the edit or the page, rather than just saying that he did something... Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 12:40, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Although, I presume you are referring to Freightliner Group. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 12:42, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Edits

Hi thanks for the feedback I have now described the edit 140.228.52.73 (talk) 19:57, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) The question isn't your edit summary, it's the fact that you didn't provide any source for its removal. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 20:16, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Major station images: a new condensed form of 'gallery'?

Some of Humberside's major fire stations in Kingston upon Hull, Bridlington, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole

Hello once again, been a while. If you remember my earlier dispute in Talk:Humberside Fire and Rescue Service - must apologise for the brash tone, the revert felt pretty raw at the time but now I understand - you might remember it being about the massive image gallery the article has. Well, I've deleted it per WP:NOTGALLERY, because lets face it: the Geograph user and other contributors definitely have made an "amazing effort", but for the article, it was simply too big to handle and still had leftover elements of original research.

What I'm interested in your feedback on is a more condensed version of such a gallery featuring only the major Humberside fire stations - see above. Its kind of inspired by galleries User:Xbhpnvs798 has made for Yorkshire and North Eastern bus company articles, and I was wondering whether they can be rolled out to fire service articles, perhaps saving images from falling off the page or being too excessive. To give my opinion, I think it helps to demonstrate the regional scope of the Service, but I appreciate one issue might be who defines what as a 'major' fire station.

Feel free to give me some feedback on it, and maybe I'll roll it out on the Humberside article. Hullian111 (talk) 20:16, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) See WP:IG. Not got any further opinion myself either way. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 20:17, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In my personal opinion I quite like the mini-montages like that. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:39, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It'd make a great fit for pages like Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, where the images are drastically falling off the page (at least from my tablet screen size), but with services with broader operating areas like the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the London Fire Brigade, there could be problems. Maybe up to nine images in one gallery, or maybe multiple galleries would do for large services like them.

Well, if you have no other objections, I'll pop the gallery above into Humberside Fire and Rescue Service and see if it sticks. Hullian111 (talk) 22:01, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

John McFall

Hi could you change John McFall (British Politician) to John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith please as it doesn't look right. 86.191.237.115 (talk) 22:12, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]